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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

6-8-2011
I was scared. I am worry. I won't deny it. However one thing you have to know, that I NEVER give up on you. Same as I never give up on life. I know you are not in my hand. It never is since the 1st time. You are in His hand. I just need to keep remind myself of this.

Monday, August 29, 2011

God knows me.. He knows my heart. He knows my weakness.. He knows my fear.
When the limited ability that I have, sometimes I am so scared if I will be able to be a really good mom for Ruel. There's things that I still don't understand until today. How we will win the battle together.. {our family & Ruel}.

I am walking with the closed eyes... without knowing what will be happen at the future.
But with only one guarantee.. and one promise.

Isaiah 55:8-9

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

not to be the best photographer.. not to be admitted as the most creative person in the world, not to be anything the world wants... I just want to be a mom that makes u comfort.. that you trust... that you love...

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Thank you for all your sweet comments at my previous RAK.. I am so amazed and encouraged! :)
The kit I have today called: CONNECTED. I am pretty much inspire with human relationship when creating this kit. The way we can love each other, connected and united forever. Although this doesn't mean to be a wedding kit, more for every day relationship, this surely can be used for that purpose, too.

And {again} while this doesn't mean to be a Christian kit, I was actually listening to: Hosanna in the highest place while creating, one of the text breaks my heart and inspire me a lot:

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart from what breaks yours

And I am thinking how is it feel when we are totally united with God's heart.
Do you agree that we can only knows how to love when we had been loved at 1st?

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Today is the 66-th celebration of Indonesia.
So...Happy Independence Day to my fellow Indonesian scrapper and friends!!
To be a part of the celebration, me and few fellow Indonesian designers wanna give a little something for you all. YES, a freebie! :)

You can grab them all by visiting all of our blogs!
Wanna see the whole collab freebie?

Saturday, August 13, 2011

If you following my twitter and my pinterest you might notice that I'd been collectiong star & dream quotes and art for awhile. Lately I had been thinking about my own dreams that pretty much left behind.

Anyway I just create this today. Just a little fun things to start the day. Drawing this on the floor with some paint after I finished my illustration for a client.

And a good quote I read today from a twitter friend (thank u!) and one I got from yesterday:

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - CS Lewis

Have a sweet dream for you who just going to end the day... and wish u a spirited day for those who start the day! And of course.. God bless u all. :)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Today when I 'play' twitter like I usually do, a friend of mine, wrote something interesting which I will translate into English: "Don't teach God how He going to bless you." I found myself thinking about this the whole day. It's pretty much related on what I had my mind these days, what been discussed with my Warna Warni Mimpi's partner, which I appreciate, respect so much by the way he transform his problem into the way to glorified the Lord. And of course what had been shared by both my young Pastors.

I have a good news on this, we Christian are blessed and will be blessed. And it has nothing to do with the lists of things we have to do.

New International Version | MATTHEW 7:7 | "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

However before we get into the prayer, let's remember one thing:

Prayer is a communication based on relationship not only a list of request.

God wants us to communicate with Him as His friend, His lover, not just because it is what we "have to do as a Christian". We often heard the responsible we have to do as a Christian, such as wake up in the morning, read the Bible, and pray. And we did that, wake up early even when we sleep very late at night, and being a little 'proud' that we had pay the price as a Christian. :) Tell ya a lil secret... my prayer time, the time while I connected the most to Jesus is at night while everyone slept and I have my night all alone. :) The best time I have.

Being a Christian is more than that. Prayer is communication between a lover to a lover.
It is just when we close our phone tonight and sleep, and can't wait to united again tomorrow morning with our lover. Same as us longing to united again with Christ in eternity one day.

I pray that in my limited ability to share, when you read this you can step in to a deeper understanding of God and His blessing, and His grace once again. And God will take you burden away and fill you with His love.

Many Christians, including me, had been trapped in to the situation in "pray hard and work hard" to get God's blessing. The sign of these usually shown when we been working too hard or trying too hard. Or even worse, catch our self thrown into depression. We forget that everything are by the grace. And not by our power, but by HIS POWER.

PS: I have to add this, that I, too, had been trapped into the 1st situation, I work too hard and almost fall in to depression until I realize that I had been "out of grace".

Some also use other method. Bless others, donate, doing charity, pay our tithe.. and expecting God's blessing as the result. Expecting God's blessing is NOT wrong. IT IS written in the Bible. But we can not manipulate God to send us blessing. We have to understand fully that IF God bless us, it's SIMPLY because: HE LOVES US. Nothing else.

He gives because He loves us.
He loves us, and He bless us because of that.
that simple.

We are not blessed because:
1. We pray 10x a day
2. We doing a big charity to other people
3. We pay our tithe
4. We work harder
5. We work less
6. We are smarter
7. We are better
8. We are holier
9. We are loyal
10. We read the Bible A LOT
and the list go on.

And if that is the list to be blessed, I am surely will turn to be the poorest creature ever, as I have none of the lists in me.

We are blessed because of grace. And it has nothing to do with what we do, or WHO we are.

Let's not get trapped into the situation and thinking that because we ARE holy then we are blessed.
Because we, human, can never be holy if it is not because of God.
It is written in the Bible:

New International Version | 1 PETER 1:16 | for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Which means: It is GOD that makes you holy. Without God, you will never NEVER be holy. Holiness has nothing to do with your effort. Same as you can not work hard to be holy and get blessed.

Remember there's a darkness age in the Corinthian church (Read Corinthian 3). Even at the moment Paul said:

New International Version | 1 COR 3:16 | Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
Paul said, you ARE, not you WERE. Even after all the sins they had done, Paul still mention that they are God's temple. Holiness has nothing to do with what you do. Again it is God's grace.

Let's get back to prayer and blessing. :)
We can just take an easy conclusion that BLESSING = 100% GRACE

Grace can pick people up from the deepest valley into the top of mountain.
Grace can pick people up from the darkest night to the brightest sunshine.

If you have a little time to read, 2 SAMUEL 9 is talking about Mephibosheth
He is a son of Jonathan, David's best friend. Mephibosheth was crippled in both feet. And in that century he is useless & wasted. But because David knows his father:

2 SAMUEL 9:7 | “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”

This turns to be Mephibosheth's happily ever after life:

2 SAMUEL 9:13 | And Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet, lived in Jerusalem and ate regularly at the king's table.

This is such a good news! Because Kitty doesn't have to be super Kitty or super holy Kitty to eat in the same table with the King.
Kitty doesn't have to be super smart Kitty or super creative Kitty, or super popular Kitty, - you name it - to eat in the same table with the King.
Because, believe me or not, EACH OF US have our own disability. No matter it's labeled or not. We are all broken people. But because the KING knows we are owned by Jesus, Our Savior. We will be able to sit next to the King.

Dianne Rigdon just add a precious message under this post, I am so blessed that I think I should add this to this post:

New International Version | EPHESIANS 2:8 | "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God"

Thank you so much for reading. :)
Song for today is: Amazing Grace {My Chains are Gone}.

Now I wanna share with you some freebie me & Sara Gleason of Zinnias & Swallowtails created for you.Sara made this template inspired by God's majesty. Every of her creation are delighful.. as her sweet spirit. ♥

Friday, August 5, 2011

Who loves construction? :)
This kit is definitely not only for boys, girls are also love to build!
It took me a longer time to finished this kit, there's a lot of other projects I am working on and jump in the middle of creating this kit. But I love the result. :)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Jakarta at night, last Friday, 29 July 2011.
Stuck like a river of junk.

Every Friday night, the traffic around Jakarta is a huge pain. So we usually choose to stay at home or going out before the office hour end. However sometimes we just can't avoid the traffic.
Last Friday instead of being a grumpy grumbler I decide to take a shoot of these. Bad lighting for sure, so I have to put the ISO higher. And while I use my camera to take some photos, Ruel use my handphone to take some, too. It's pretty much turn to be a little fun activity for awhile. :) Of course after that we wiiiish the traffic will gets better again. :D